Search results for: Chen Jianrong
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The Political Gambit in Sports: Taiwan’s Struggles and Opportunities
In the Paris 2024 Olympics, the Taiwanese government is being given the opportunity to use ‘Taiwan’ as its name in the Cultural Olympiad. Taking part in international sports...
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Japan: No Indo-Pacific Order Without International Order
In April, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, in his address to the joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, made the case for a stronger “global partnership” with the...
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Convergence in Vietnam, EU Interests a Harbinger of Indo-Pacific Order?
In March and April, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son’s nearly back-to-back visits to the U.S. and China highlighted Vietnam’s increasing penchant for delicate diplomacy with major powers...
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Positive Paranoia: Chinese Interpretations of Indo-Pacific Geopolitics
This Focus Asia paper seeks to interpret Chinese narratives on Indo-Pacific geopolitics by reviewing Chinese state media and scholarly opinions on Indo-Pacific geopolitics. For this purpose, the paper...
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Why Taiwan Matters to Europe
The Taiwan issue is known to be sensitive for Beijing, one of its so-called core interests. Taiwan has no diplomatic recognition among European Union member states but informal...
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Connecting Taiwan and Finland: An Interview with Prof. Julie Yu-Wen Chen
...Julie Yu-wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Since 2023, she has been involved in the EU twinning project “The EU in...
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Slowly Taking Off: Nordic-Taiwan Relations
...contacts. The Institute for Security and Development Studies (ISDP) in Stockholm is running a Taiwan Project, and this Special Paper—a joint undertaking by the ISDP and Julie Yu-Wen Chen, a...
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Changing Southeast Asia: The Role of China, the United States, Japan and ASEAN
Southeast Asia’s international perspective has been changing sharply in the twenty-first century. A multipolar structure has emerged, in which China, the U.S. and Japan work together with ASEAN...
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‘Chinese Civil War’ in the Olympics Men’s Badminton Doubles: The Implication of Beijing’s Insecurity on Taiwan-related Issues
Taiwan has competed in the Olympic Games and other international sporting events under ‘Chinese Taipei’ since 1981. In the past few years, controversy over the nomenclature has…